Netherlands

The Dutch city of The Hague has been chosen to host the finale of the 2017-18 edition of sailing’s Volvo Ocean Race.

The Dutch Football Association (KNVB) has announced that it has uncovered an attempt to fix a match in its top-tier Eredivisie domestic club competition seven years ago.

The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) mixed martial arts organisation has today (Friday) announced that it will stage events in Croatia and the Netherlands for the first time this year.

The Dutch Football Association (KNVB) has today (Tuesday) said it will submit itself to an investigation by Fifa’s Ethics Committee and ordered an independent forensic audit into its unsuccessful joint bid with neighbours Belgium for the 2018 World Cup.

Dutch Eredivisie football club FC Twente has been banned from European competition for three seasons after the Dutch Football Association (KNVB) ruled it “deliberately misled” the governing body over its relationship with Doyen Sports Investments, a subsidiary of private investment fund Doyen Group.

World Archery has announced that the Dutch city of s-Hertogenbosch – better known as Den Bosch – will host the 2019 edition of its World Archery Championships and World Archery Para Championships.

The International Triathlon Union (ITU) has selected Rotterdam as the host of its 2016 Paratriathlon World Championships.

The Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) has announced it is to stage a Premier League event in the Dutch city of Rotterdam in a move that will mark the first time the tournament will visit continental Europe.

Ary Graça, president of the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB), has paid tribute to the Netherlands after the country staged the global governing body’s Beach Volleyball World Championships for the first time.

The Dutch province of Gelderland has secured the hosting rights to the opening three stages of the 2016 Giro d’Italia cycling event.

The Holland Heineken House is an all-round meeting place, office and famous party venue jointly organised by the Dutch brewer Heineken and the Dutch Olympic committee NOC*NSF. The House has been set up at every summer and winter Olympic Games since 1992 in Barcelona, and is opened up to visitors during the day to watch Olympic events on big screens amongst providing other entertainment.

Two cities have already come forward as potential hosts for the 2019 European Games after the Netherlands stepped back from staging the multi-sport event earlier this week, according to European Olympic Committees (EOC) president Patrick Hickey.

The Netherlands has pulled out of hosting the 2019 European Games, just one month after being named as the European Olympic Committees’ (EOC) “preferred candidate” to stage the multi-sport event.

Michael van Praag has pulled out of the race to be president of Fifa and has pledged to support Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan in his bid to become the new chief of football’s global governing body.

The Dutch Olympic Committee (NOC*NSF) has said that a key decision over political backing for its bid for the 2019 European Games will be made before the end of next month’s edition of the multi-sport event, after the European Olympic Committees (EOC) on Saturday unanimously approved in principle the Netherlands’ multi-city model.

The Netherlands is poised to land the 2019 European Games after the European Olympic Committees (EOC) said its multi-city proposal is the “preferred candidate” for the second edition of the multi-sport event.